Tag: IT tool sprawl

SolarWinds’ 2026 State of Monitoring & Observability Report, surveying over 750 IT professionals managing distributed systems, identifies profound misalignment between hybrid IT architectures and monitoring tools, with 77% of teams lacking full visibility across on-premises and cloud environments. Compounding this, 75% cite poor cross-team coordination—spanning network, infrastructure, applications and databases—as a barrier to effective observability, while 55% grapple with tool sprawl from excessive monitoring...

Kaspersky Mobile Malware Evolution report of 2025 documents a 56% year-on-year increase in Trojan banker attacks targeting Android smartphones, with 255,090 unique installation packages detected—a 271% rise from 2024, underscoring the profitability driving cybercriminal innovation in credential theft for banking, e-payments and credit systems. These malware variants, primarily spread via messaging apps and malicious webpages, prioritise evasion techniques to bypass security solutions, with dominant...